"What is life? - Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die; Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against anything that is growing weak and old in us, and not just in us. Life - therefore means: being devoid of respect for the dying, the wretched, the aged? Always being a murderer? And yet old Moses said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'"
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Book One, 26. (1882), translated by Josefine Nauckhoff
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